Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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